Back to the Point

Let’s look at the point of our faith...Glorifying God and enjoying Him forever.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV

31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Certainly we are called to give glory to God with the fulness of our life.

Recognizing our action comes from the fullness of all 66 books of the Bible:

I am reminded of the Psalmist, Asaph, as he sung to the Lord:

Psalm 73:23–26 ESV

23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. 24 You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. 25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. 26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

So he recognized the glorious Lord, His worth, His presence, His strength, and His value.

So if our chief end is to recognize/respond to the person and work of Christ, we must be directed by something/someone.

Gen. 1, begins with the same three words that start John 1.

But John 1:1, that we will speak about tonight, speaks to the pre-existence of Christ/The Word.

Why is this significant?

It is significant because He was from the beginning, meaning the Word is not some cultural thing.

It is not some moldable thing, changeable thing, come lately thing.

Let’s look to John 1:1.

John 1:1 ESV

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Let’s be mindful that we are referring to the before time...

There was a time when the Earth was not, but the Word was.

Genesis 1:1 ESV

1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Colossians 1:17 ESV

17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

1 John 1:1 ESV

1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—

He Was

Hebrews 1:1–3 ESV

1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. 3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power...

He Was w/God

1 John 1:2 ESV

2 the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us—

John 17:5 ESV

5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

He Was God

Philippians 2:6 ESV

6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,